Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin